# DORSET MENTAL HEALTH FORUM

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1169215
- **Other names:** DMHF
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** CIO
- **Registered:** Sept. 16, 2016
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1169215


## Contact

- **Address:** Dorset Mental Health Forum, 29 Durngate Street, DORCHESTER
- **Postcode:** DT1 1JP
- **Phone:** 01305 257172
- **Email:** admin@dorsetmentalhealthforum.org.uk
- **Website:** www.dorsetmentalhealthforum.org.uk



## Activities

**Objects:** TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT MENTAL HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: SUPPORTING THE RECOVERY OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING MENTAL DISTRESS, BY CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO RECONNECT WITH THEIR OWN STRENGTHS AND RESOURCES, IN ORDER TO BUILD THE LIVES THEY WISH TO LIVE. CHALLENGING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE EXPERIENCING OR AFFECTED BY MENTAL DISTRESS BY MODELLING THE VALUE OF LIVED EXPERIENCE EXPERTISE, INCLUDING REPRESENTATION AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE IMPROVEMENT AND SHAPING OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. ADVANCING THE EDUCATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH BY PROMOTING THE PRINCIPLES OF MENTAL HEALTH, WELLBEING AND RECOVERY THROUGH COPRODUCTION AND RECOVERY EDUCATION.DEVELOPING THE SKILLS, CAPACITY AND OPPORTUNITIES TO BUILD SOCIALLY INCLUSIVE, EQUITABLE AND RECIPROCAL COMMUNITIES WHICH ACTIVELY SUPPORT GOOD MENTAL HEALTH.

**Activities:** The Dorset Mental Health Forum is a local peer led charity, which promotes the principles of wellbeing, recovery and coproduction through partnership working and providing recovery orientated partnership and peer led services.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Other Charitable Activities
- **What:** Education/training, Disability, Economic/community Development/employment, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- **Who:** Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Bournemouth
- Dorset
- Poole



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2025 | £1455487 | £1492923 | £1295401 | 68 |
| March 31, 2024 | £1489331 | £1410032 | £1332837 | 72 |
| March 31, 2023 | £1433108 | £1444809 | £1253538 | 76 |
| March 31, 2022 | £1544580 | £1076395 | £1265239 | 77 |
| March 31, 2021 | £1186147 | £941466 | £797054 | 72 |



## Trustees

- Alison Chorley — appointed Nov. 24, 2022
- Arthur Merchant — appointed Oct. 1, 2019
- David Christopher Pain — appointed Nov. 27, 2025
- Keith Thomas Phalp — appointed Nov. 27, 2025
- Lesley Jane Haig — appointed Nov. 27, 2025
- Peter Locke Lovibond — appointed Oct. 1, 2019
- Sorrelle Jessica Ford — appointed Nov. 24, 2022
- Stephen Webb — appointed Nov. 27, 2025
- Timothy Robin Harry Mr — appointed Nov. 24, 2022